Two books have been published giving further details of this project and showing photographs of the many icons and frescoes painted by
members of The British Association of Iconographers and particularly Sr Bernadette Crook. These can be purchased
here.

Rooted in Galilee –An Iconostasis for Peace 76 full colour pages. Compiled by members of the BAI and edited by Sr Bernadette Crook RHSM. £13.99 incl pp

A blessing and formal opening of the completed church at Ibillin. Sr Berndette Cook

In June this year I returned to complete the painting of the church in Galilee. The Pantocrator for the 27-metre-high dome still had to
be painted. I knew that at almost 79 I could not ascend to those heights. We devised a plan whereby a 5.5-metre disc would be
constructed and I would paint the image on the pieces of the disc laid together on the church floor. After I had painted the image each
piece was raised and screwed to an already constructed metal frame. When I left, the scaffolding still obscured any view of the icon in
situ.

I also thought you would like to see some pictures of what we have been doing this summer in the church in Galilee which we have been
decorating with icons over the past years. The iconostasis which you see in the picture is where we started eight years ago. This May
and June I aimed at bringing the work to a conclusion. In May I started with the side-apse paintings of St George and St Macrina the
Younger (an older sister of Basil the Great who raised him) and the central-apse Madonna of the Sign.

A blessing and formal opening of the completed church is to be held one Saturday at the end of November for the feast of Blessed Miriam
Buwadi, who is from Ibillin. You are all invited!

Sr Bernadette on her knees painting the Pantocrator for the dome

The Pantocrator is raised into the dome piece by piece

Archbishop Elias Chacour and Sr Bernadette, in scaffold harness,discuss the dome icon, together with Micha and Walid

Painting the Madonna from the scaffolding after finishing the upper half of her from much higher up

Audrey Porksen and Sr Bernadette painting the background of the sixteen angels to surround the drum of the dome